1 October 2016

More than 9,000 people, including nearly 4,000 civilians, have been killed in one year of Russian air raids in Syria, according to a monitoring group, said the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). as fierce fighting near the besieged city of Aleppo continues.

Russia launched an air campaign on September 30 last year in support of Syrian government forces, in a military intervention that has been widely credited with helping turn the balance of power in favour of President Bashar al-Assad